Every filing period on record, as reported. One column per filed period — a period with no column is a period with no filing, not a zero.
Basis · Amendments and terminations supersede the original report for the same registrant, client and period, so a revised quarter is counted once at its latest filed value. Registration-only filings carry no activity money and are excluded from these totals.
Who lobbies for them
Every outside firm that has filed on this client's behalf, by fees reported.
Reading this · LD-2 reports a hired firm's fee and a registrant's reported expenses on separate lines and never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. Firm names link to their own record as the firms chapter lands.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
12 filings
$230K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
12 filings
$230K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 18 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
H.R. 1111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2454111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3617111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
S. 1733111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filings
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Jeff MarkeySignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, US House of Rep.12 filingsthrough 2012
Steve McbeeSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Associate Political Director, White House12 filingsthrough 2012
Casey SixkillerSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Legislative Assistant, US Senate5 filingsthrough 2010
Glynda Ann BeckerSignal Group Consulting, LLCCovered position: Associate Political Director, White House
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
This record groups every filed spelling of the client's name into one entity, so "MERCK & CO., INC." and "MERCK & CO INC" read as the same company. The grouping is the client's normalized name — organizations that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: snohomish-county.
10 filings
$190K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
3 filings
$60K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
3 filings
$60K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
3 filings
$60K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
3 filings
$50K on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE
2 filings
$40K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
2 filings
$40K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
2 filings
$30K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
2 filings
$30K on those filings
Indian/Native American Affairs
IND
1 filing
$20K on those filings
Note · A filing names one to several issue areas and reports a single dollar figure for the period, so the same money appears beside every issue that filing declares. The dollar column is therefore spend on filings that named this issue — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
through 2010
S. 3261110th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20093 filingsthrough 2008
S. 3636111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 1424110th CongressA bill to provide authority for the Federal Government to purchase and insure certain types of troubled assets for the purposes of providing stability to and preventing disruption in the economy and financial system and protecting taxpayers, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for energy production and conservation, to extend certain expiring provisions, to provide individual income tax relief, and for other purposes.2 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 17110th CongressSecure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Reauthorization Act of 20072 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 2337110th CongressEnergy Policy Reform and Revitalization Act of 20072 filingsthrough 2008
How these are found · Bill references are extracted from the free-text activity description each filing writes, then matched to the Congress in session that filing year. A reference we can't match to a bill on file is still shown, unlinked — we cite what the filing said rather than guess at what it meant. Naming a bill is not a position on it: LD-2 records that a client lobbied on the bill, never which side.
